Satan Roars -- Because He Has Lost

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

"Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." (1 Peter 5: 8-9)

When lions hunt, they do not roar, lest they scare away they prey they want to devour.

Our Enemy, the devil, has already been judged:

"And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

"Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged." (John 16: 8, 11)

He is judged, lost, cannot do anything to us. His one weapon, the law, has not further effect on us:

"And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

"And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." (Colossians 2: 13-15)

We were dead in our trespasses, but by Christ's death and Resurrection, we have now received His life. Yet when Jesus died on the Cross, not only did He die for ours sins, but He fulfilled the law (Matthew 5: 17; Romans 8: 4), once and for all, and forever --"blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us" -- and by doing so, Jesus  "spoiled" or "disarmed" the demon powers who are against us.

The devil uses the law against God's Beloved children, attempting to impress on us reproach and fear for failing to measure up to a standard which we could never fulfill, and which has been in fact and forever fulfilled in Christ!

Satan has lost, and forever. Stand stedfast in the faith of your righteous standing in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21), resting in the conviction that no weapon will prosper against you!